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with me in new york, general jim jones, former national security advisor for president obama. i am pleased to have each of them here on this program to talk about this important topic. michael tell me what the essential argument is that you are outlining in this piece. >> well, yes, the essential argument of the piece is that the current u.s. strategic posture is unsustainable. we have a de facto strategic paradigm that guides the national security policy that is extremely demanding. it is the legacy of the post colorado war period and in many ways the cold war, demands that the united states maintain, deployment all over the world and maintain military capacity to go into many regions of the world and defeat regional adversaries, maintain diplomatic influence and presence to be able to resolve many crises in the world, in short, it has the u.s. as the basic world solution to many problems, and my argument is that that posture is becoming insolvent, for a variety of reasons, not only are domestic economic problems that are making our current level of defense expenditures unsus
with me in new york, general jim jones, former national security advisor for president obama. i am pleased to have each of them here on this program to talk about this important topic. michael tell me what the essential argument is that you are outlining in this piece. >> well, yes, the essential argument of the piece is that the current u.s. strategic posture is unsustainable. we have a de facto strategic paradigm that guides the national security policy that is extremely demanding. it...
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that's barack obama's plan! (laughter) the weird part is, it never used to be romney's. >> announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. the taliban may not have watches but they do have calendars. >> jon: calendars? i meant colanders. they have colanders. (laughter) and did i say withdrawal date was wrong? i meant right! (laughter) how about iraq? >> governor romney, was the war in iraq a good idea worth the cost in blood and treasure we have spent? >> it was the right decision to go into iraq. i supported it at the time; i support it now. >> jon: but do you support it -- (laughter). now? >> we don't want another iraq. we don't want another afghanistan. that's not the right course for us. >> well, i guess that's not a flip-flop so much as a principled recognition because of the iraq war's current unpopularity. (laughter) you know what? iraq and afghanistan those are yesterday's wars. it's tomorrow's war that counts and if there's anything governor romney has been vociferous about lo these past 18 months it is h
that's barack obama's plan! (laughter) the weird part is, it never used to be romney's. >> announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. the taliban may not have watches but they do have calendars. >> jon: calendars? i meant colanders. they have colanders. (laughter) and did i say withdrawal date was wrong? i meant right! (laughter) how about iraq? >> governor romney, was the war in iraq a good idea worth the cost in blood and treasure we have spent? >> it was the right...
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obama final debate shows how much romney agrees with obama obama romney no major differences in foreign policy debate you know what just check out for yourself. we have to do is a president i congratulate him on taking out of some of the law governor romney i'm glad that you agree that we have been successful in going after al qaeda to the governor's credit you supported us going into libya i believe as the president indicated and said of the time that i supported his his action there i felt the same as the president did first of all. water under. scored the the same point the president made what you just heard governor romney said is he doesn't have different ideas mr president i'd have to agree with both of you actually on the fact that neither of you are providing the american people with an opportunity to change the course of our foreign policy and why i'd love to devote a full half hour to this ridiculous puppet show let's just highlight a few points here israel zionism or bust. israel security with israel because not only is israel security at stake israel is a true friend it is o
obama final debate shows how much romney agrees with obama obama romney no major differences in foreign policy debate you know what just check out for yourself. we have to do is a president i congratulate him on taking out of some of the law governor romney i'm glad that you agree that we have been successful in going after al qaeda to the governor's credit you supported us going into libya i believe as the president indicated and said of the time that i supported his his action there i felt...
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>> i think they hated obama. number one enemy in the world is hatred for obama. we could go into that about white working class on the south and about racial hatred in many cases. this isn't about being a better president. they want to get rid of this president. >> sean: joining me with reaction. former candidate, herman cain. more 999. how are you doing? >> fine, happy to be here. >> sean: hated obama, they wanted him out of the white house more than they want to destroy al-qaeda. 17 million more americans are food stamps. he didn't cut the deficit. we have six trillion new obama debt. 49 million americans in total on food stamps. that is called a failure of obama. he said if he didn't turn it around, one-term proposition. >> let me give a couple more stats. the drop in median family income for black family was 11% in the last four years which is twice the rate for an average white middle income family. secondly, unemployment rate amongst black people is twice what the so-called national rate is. chris matthews who wanted to play the race card, chris matthews wi
>> i think they hated obama. number one enemy in the world is hatred for obama. we could go into that about white working class on the south and about racial hatred in many cases. this isn't about being a better president. they want to get rid of this president. >> sean: joining me with reaction. former candidate, herman cain. more 999. how are you doing? >> fine, happy to be here. >> sean: hated obama, they wanted him out of the white house more than they want to...
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on line by the mainstream media and barred from budging in between obama and romney the other funds for the us presidency get that voices right here on our seat so the america will sink deeper towards a police state are gone the so which frontrunner wins the election. and on those stairs who gives a boiling in spain question thousands into the streets of traitors looking to proceed his policy of reducing spending as the government mulls shoving more cuts into next year's projects. as the headlines for you off next manas here with a night has forced. hello and welcome to this is sport on artsy with me or i'm on cough syrup and here's what's coming up. the mark sports finally secure their first points of this season's champions league campaign beating been in game with. some of downs maria sharapova starts the w.c. championship with a victory against sarra irani targeting the women's rankings top spot. battered and bruised this cover hell mountain bikers get their kicks in russia. let's get going with football where spartak moscow have injected life into their champions league season the
on line by the mainstream media and barred from budging in between obama and romney the other funds for the us presidency get that voices right here on our seat so the america will sink deeper towards a police state are gone the so which frontrunner wins the election. and on those stairs who gives a boiling in spain question thousands into the streets of traitors looking to proceed his policy of reducing spending as the government mulls shoving more cuts into next year's projects. as the...
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face so the chairman of the joint chiefs was obama, the secretary of state was obama. it sort of captured -- obama has this fantasy, he didn't kill bin laden. the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s did. he didn't find bin laden. an enormous intelligence effort over a long period did. if you read the remarkable recent book "the finish" by mark bowden who earlier had done "blackhawk down" you get a sense of the effort that went into tracking down and killing bin laden. i don't take anything away from the president for making the decision to do it but i think it would be pretty hard for a president not to have decided to go after bin laden once they found hi >> yes, but let's be honest. if it was the other way round and mitt romney was the incumbent president and he had taken out bin laden, he would be talking about nothing else. it's all politics, isn't it, at the end of the day. let's get down to nitty-gritty here. let's move on to ohio. because it's getting increasingly clear it's going to be a very, very tight race. may all come down to ohio. how important is this whole issue of the
face so the chairman of the joint chiefs was obama, the secretary of state was obama. it sort of captured -- obama has this fantasy, he didn't kill bin laden. the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s did. he didn't find bin laden. an enormous intelligence effort over a long period did. if you read the remarkable recent book "the finish" by mark bowden who earlier had done "blackhawk down" you get a sense of the effort that went into tracking down and killing bin laden. i don't take anything...
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and romney and barack obama. he drove through clear lines i'm not looking to do another afghanistan. i see no military role for syria. that's a repudiation of some of the democratizing policies of george w. bush. >> eliot: right. >> to romney's credit, moving toward an area where he recognizes the value of hard power but also the value of the soft power. >> eliot: this would have been called a pivot. would unkindly be called lack of principle or strategic world view because the real tension is between mitt romney last night and mitt romney two weeks ago. to talk about syria just for a minute when mitt romney said he doesn't want to do a no-fly zone. he doesn't want to have boots on the ground. he's really completely embracing the president's policy in the area where there's been rather uniform criticism. that was the one that was a problem for me. >> i do think there's a colonel of -- a kernel of disagreement where romney on the one hand still has a concept of weapons from the united states to the syrian rebels a
and romney and barack obama. he drove through clear lines i'm not looking to do another afghanistan. i see no military role for syria. that's a repudiation of some of the democratizing policies of george w. bush. >> eliot: right. >> to romney's credit, moving toward an area where he recognizes the value of hard power but also the value of the soft power. >> eliot: this would have been called a pivot. would unkindly be called lack of principle or strategic world view because...
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bills and that will help you and they have to look good and if they look good enough organizing for obama i mean there are no it was so he was doing and he was doing like mitt romney did when he said that he was living in his son's unfinished basement miscues no he was right that he was going to commit systemic voter fraud there's a pretty big difference and that the son of a sitting congressional rabbit a part i can't speak to that it was i think about i don't i think about the most recent right wing conspiracy theories i'm sorry it's all just an exam i have no no no i don't read is a right wing web site isolated or there is the easy issue with the us. that i you know and i think this might have been was what missing albrecht was getting at with the hypocrisy angle was that you have an organization that has a lot of member states that don't have free and fair elections and we're going to give them running over your example i might be one of the same the same state department employee who sent a letter to russia who sent a letter to this organization asking that they come monitor our elec
bills and that will help you and they have to look good and if they look good enough organizing for obama i mean there are no it was so he was doing and he was doing like mitt romney did when he said that he was living in his son's unfinished basement miscues no he was right that he was going to commit systemic voter fraud there's a pretty big difference and that the son of a sitting congressional rabbit a part i can't speak to that it was i think about i don't i think about the most recent...
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obama. it was hard to tell. >> 59.2 million television viewers watched last night's debate, down from 65.6 million who watched the second presidential debate. a cbs poll shows that 53% of uncommitted voters believe president obama won and only 23% believe romney one. and a reuters poll shows 37% obama won and 31% romney won. and 42% believe mitt romney won. today nate silver forecasts that on november 6th, president obama has a 73% chance of winning re-election and mitt romney will win 247 votes. >> i know you work while rush limbaugh is on. you actually overlap with him. >> i actually have him in my ear. >> you can't miss a minute. >> so you cut deeply into his first hour of ratings. >> i do. >> therefore it is my job to deliver to you what rush has said today. it took him a while but he figured out romney's debate strategy last night. >> a lot of people on our side thought he agreed with obama too much. a lot of people on our side didn't like that debate last night. let me just tell you. i
obama. it was hard to tell. >> 59.2 million television viewers watched last night's debate, down from 65.6 million who watched the second presidential debate. a cbs poll shows that 53% of uncommitted voters believe president obama won and only 23% believe romney one. and a reuters poll shows 37% obama won and 31% romney won. and 42% believe mitt romney won. today nate silver forecasts that on november 6th, president obama has a 73% chance of winning re-election and mitt romney will win...
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barack obama was against mandates. we've got a mandate because it was the practical outcome of the discussions with pelosi and reid. i think if you look to the way myth govern mitt governed in massachusetts that's about the way he'll govern as president. >> jesse in california said if you can't drink their booze, eat their food and sleep with their women and vote against them in the morning you shouldn't be in this business. do you think -- you're laughing because you've heard it before. do you think governor romney is that ruthless so say i'll go with my robes on at liberty university, sign on to the neocons but in the end i'll be a man of judgment. how does he cut the ties with those people? glue don't cut the ties with them. practical decisions -- >> is he a moderate? >> practical decisions come along and you make the best possible decision. your ideology guides you but doesn't control you. ronald reagan lowered taxes, and two times he raised taxes because he got a good deal with tip o'neill and made a good deal. >>
barack obama was against mandates. we've got a mandate because it was the practical outcome of the discussions with pelosi and reid. i think if you look to the way myth govern mitt governed in massachusetts that's about the way he'll govern as president. >> jesse in california said if you can't drink their booze, eat their food and sleep with their women and vote against them in the morning you shouldn't be in this business. do you think -- you're laughing because you've heard it before....
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obama also had wanted to keep troops in iraq. but could not g baghdad to guarantee them legal immunity. >> there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement. i concurred with that and said we should some number of troops stay on. that was something i concurred with. that was your posture and mine as well. you th ght it should have been 5,000 troops. i thought it should have been s more troops. the answer was we got no troops whatsoever. >> just a few weeks ago you indicated that we should still have troops in iraq. >> i'm sorry. i indicated... >> warner: last november, joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey told a senate committee the obama administration wanted to keep about 3,000 troops in iraq if there had been a status of fores agreement. you can watch the entire debate on our home >> woodruff: you can watch the entire debate on our home page,r and find our analysis there, too. >> ifill: another topic raised last night: the cost of slashing the federal government. congress agreed to deep acro
obama also had wanted to keep troops in iraq. but could not g baghdad to guarantee them legal immunity. >> there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement. i concurred with that and said we should some number of troops stay on. that was something i concurred with. that was your posture and mine as well. you th ght it should have been 5,000 troops. i thought it should have been s more troops. the answer was we got no troops whatsoever. >> just a...
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obama got no -- obama or mccain. obama got elected. this time i am not taking chances. i am voting for romney. i can relate to third party supporters, but a third party vote, most of them are conservatives. a third party vote is a vote for obama, so you had better vote for romney. >> i started out voting for obama, but after watching this debate, i feel like there was more common sense in the first 30 minutes then there has been in the entire fiasco. >> i am between gary johnson and shall sign. if i have a choice to choose rocky, i would definitely choose him, and because i understand his viewpoint. i did not know him or understand him before this debate. >> people voted for a third- party candidate are taking away a vote for a democrat or republican, and they are wasting our time, because it will be one of the two in office. >> more of my questions have been raised with a third party than with obama or wrongly, -- or romney, but it not what is really sad is they have not been voicing their opinion. i would like to get some of these questions answered. >> as we follow t
obama got no -- obama or mccain. obama got elected. this time i am not taking chances. i am voting for romney. i can relate to third party supporters, but a third party vote, most of them are conservatives. a third party vote is a vote for obama, so you had better vote for romney. >> i started out voting for obama, but after watching this debate, i feel like there was more common sense in the first 30 minutes then there has been in the entire fiasco. >> i am between gary johnson and...
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that is my biggest concern with obama presidency. with respect to trying to solve the budget crisis, he is going to do so much more damage with obamacare being implemented. taxes going up because of the bush tax cuts being expired and more regulatory aggressiveness on his part. this economy is just going to crumble. >> ec regulatory issues that lay? >> well, we don't have enough time. [laughter] into the american public, the federal government uses too many regulations. absolutely. if you go in and talk to the public about the compelling parts of spending, should we spend less money on education -- no, that is her kids future. people with spending cuts or for her, but almost every individual spending cut. regulations spell out a number of regulations that they would change. during debates and other people have asked him to give them an idea of some regulations and they don't get specific. why? because most regulations are targeted. i will agree with rick that often regulations may exceed the power and often regulations are targeted,
that is my biggest concern with obama presidency. with respect to trying to solve the budget crisis, he is going to do so much more damage with obamacare being implemented. taxes going up because of the bush tax cuts being expired and more regulatory aggressiveness on his part. this economy is just going to crumble. >> ec regulatory issues that lay? >> well, we don't have enough time. [laughter] into the american public, the federal government uses too many regulations. absolutely....
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and was it barack obama trying to do, mark. >> i think barack obama was reflecting the reality of the polls, that it's been slipping and heading in the other direction, trying to change the trajectory of the race. i thought he made a strong case against mitt romney. he was obviously not hesitating to go personal upon him. i agree with david, they felt they had to disagree even though there wasn't disagreement. but one thing they didn't disagree on was the argue over who cares more and loves israel more. i got 22 mentions of israel, 0 of europe, 0 of asia, other than china. japan went unmentioned. india went unmentioned. you know. >> ifill: you start the list, to you go to mexico, every -- >> the entire north american continent. >> mali had a very good night. >> it came up several times. >> woodruff: david, it did seem to me that mitt romney had a clear strategy of not trying to get-- not only not get rattled, but to be agreeable, to be as you said a minute ago, presidential, above the fray. i think i counted at least three or four times where he said stepping back here, to take a bigg
and was it barack obama trying to do, mark. >> i think barack obama was reflecting the reality of the polls, that it's been slipping and heading in the other direction, trying to change the trajectory of the race. i thought he made a strong case against mitt romney. he was obviously not hesitating to go personal upon him. i agree with david, they felt they had to disagree even though there wasn't disagreement. but one thing they didn't disagree on was the argue over who cares more and...
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obama is shutting down pipelines. obama is nationalizing healthcare. obama is preparing hundreds of billions of dollars small business tax increases. obama runs the interior department. he is hollowing out jobs in this country. meanwhile, he keept talking about out sourlg jobs. what he is outsourcing a massive debt to china. >> brian: here is an issue. sequestration. bob woodward had a problem with this. here is the debate when sequester came up between him and mitt romney two days ago. >> it's not something i propose. it will not happen. the budget that we're talking about is not reducing our military spending. it's maintaining it. >> brian: here is what bob woodward said. he is mistaken. jack lu brought it to harry reid. do you think the president openly did not know that? >> i think the president is a serial liar. unfortunately during these debates we should have a buzzer, every time he lies a buzzer goes off. it was his idea on sequestration. there is something wrong in a country like this. when we have a radical left wing lawyer that is running th
obama is shutting down pipelines. obama is nationalizing healthcare. obama is preparing hundreds of billions of dollars small business tax increases. obama runs the interior department. he is hollowing out jobs in this country. meanwhile, he keept talking about out sourlg jobs. what he is outsourcing a massive debt to china. >> brian: here is an issue. sequestration. bob woodward had a problem with this. here is the debate when sequester came up between him and mitt romney two days ago....
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what happened when president obama came into office? he said about our international treaties and our own domestic laws, absolutely forbidding torture, let's forget about those war crimes and move forward and not move backward. what about those who committed countless federal felonies by illegally spied on american citizens? he said let's forget about it. he did the same thing when he was in the united states senate after he promised opposite to everybody before he got the democratic nomination. he voted for retroactive immunity for the telecom companies to participated in the illegal surveillance program. that shows the utter disregard to the rule of law. we need to demand more of our leaders. [applause] il good.i >> if i were president, i would have vetoed ndaa. >> why can we all be that simple? governor terry >> because, larry, this is pitching oneself to vote for me. so i will try to take advantage of shamelessly pitching myself here. i would veto the act allowing for you and i as u.s. citizens to be arrested and detained without a
what happened when president obama came into office? he said about our international treaties and our own domestic laws, absolutely forbidding torture, let's forget about those war crimes and move forward and not move backward. what about those who committed countless federal felonies by illegally spied on american citizens? he said let's forget about it. he did the same thing when he was in the united states senate after he promised opposite to everybody before he got the democratic...
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that is because obama and ms. mccaskill have a deep abiding faith that government is the solution to every problem. that is why they could not fulfill their records. she is going to washington, d.c. she has brought us red tape and all kinds of bureaucracy and executive orders. she does not understand that these big government solutions choke out freedom. what i would suggest is that you could bring me to washington, d.c. in the senate so that we can take the missouri common sense back to washington, d.c. cut down on the taxes and red tape and build an american dream and the american family once again to be strong and restore our bright hope for our future. thank you. i look forward to joining you for the rest of the debate. >> congressman, thank you. we turn to the panel for their questions. we have the first question. your question goes to congressman akin. >> congressman akin, today the head of goldman sachs, bank of america, the city grew, and many other major financial institutions sent a letter urging the pre
that is because obama and ms. mccaskill have a deep abiding faith that government is the solution to every problem. that is why they could not fulfill their records. she is going to washington, d.c. she has brought us red tape and all kinds of bureaucracy and executive orders. she does not understand that these big government solutions choke out freedom. what i would suggest is that you could bring me to washington, d.c. in the senate so that we can take the missouri common sense back to...
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so there you have obama up. don't forget, the president has road to an electoral college victory without the state of ohio, but it is very difficult if not impossible for mitt romney to get there. because if he loses ohio, he has to run the table on a lot of states right now he's not ahead in. >> no republican has won the white house without ohio. >> that's right. >> so with 13 days to go according to this "time" magazine poll obama's up by five in ohio. three percentage point margin of error. >> good news for the white house. >> yep. >>> an october surprise, not quite. but donald trump is proposing a $5 million deal to president obama. you want the details? we'll share them with you when we come back. you've been busy for a dead man. after you jumped ship in bangkok, i thought i'd lost you. >>> surfing is my life now. but who's going to .... >>> tell the world that priceline has even faster, easier ways to save you money. . . on hotels, flights & cars? you still have it. >>> i'll always have it. so this is it?
so there you have obama up. don't forget, the president has road to an electoral college victory without the state of ohio, but it is very difficult if not impossible for mitt romney to get there. because if he loses ohio, he has to run the table on a lot of states right now he's not ahead in. >> no republican has won the white house without ohio. >> that's right. >> so with 13 days to go according to this "time" magazine poll obama's up by five in ohio. three...
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barack obama was right about it. and as president, he brought us home from that war honorably and decently. not an easy thing to do. >> so the aim time line george w. bush had. let me ask you -- >> come on. do you think that's a proud record george bush had? >> no, it's not. >> what's wrong with pointing that out in. >> are you going to let me talk? this is so sad, david. let's talk about afghanistan. >> yeah. >> are you guys glad that barack obama tripled the number of troops in afghanistan, which we all opposed around this table, and kept american troops there fighting and dying after we all knew -- >> yet again -- yet again -- here. if i can answer the question. barack obama comes into office. we're at war in afghanistan. it is a mess. and you're faced with all kinds of horrendous problems. we may leave in 2014, and you may find, as dexter filkins in his report in "the new yorker" said a civil war that follows. there could be horrendous tragedy there. no one is saying -- and certainly not in this magazine -- i don
barack obama was right about it. and as president, he brought us home from that war honorably and decently. not an easy thing to do. >> so the aim time line george w. bush had. let me ask you -- >> come on. do you think that's a proud record george bush had? >> no, it's not. >> what's wrong with pointing that out in. >> are you going to let me talk? this is so sad, david. let's talk about afghanistan. >> yeah. >> are you guys glad that barack obama...